That's pretty fascinating. So one has an extremely small and almost negligible chance of influencing the outcome by putting the desired face up before flipping.

That's pretty fascinating. So one has an extremely small and almost negligible chance of influencing the outcome by putting the desired face up before flipping. I wonder what would happen if the coin was replaced with some ultra pure and uniform coin with smooth (but identifiable) faces, placed in a vacuum chamber, and flipped with a precise machine that exerts the same force every time.